01-18-2014
• arclein
In 1955, educator Rudolf Flesch saw this changing. He published Why Johnny Can't Read: And What You Can Do About It, demonstrating the disastrous results of a particular reading pedagogy called “look-say” in which students simply memorized entire words rather than learning how to sound them out phonetically. Traditional introduction to the fundamentals of phonics, he argued, almost universally produced readers; “look-say” produced a startling